NGC 2766

NGC 2766

NGC 2766 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cancer about 195 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 68,000 ly, about 68% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,178 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBab
195 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
4,178 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 195 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2766 as it looked roughly 195 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.

Nearest galaxies
IC 2428Spiral7.5 million ly
apart
IC 2439Spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 2862Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
IC 2421Spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 2649Spiral24 million ly
apart
NGC 2926Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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